My own country was perfectly fine sacrificing a region for monetary gain. In fact most countries have nationalized their oil and gas fields.

Except for the global south. That's how you get couped by the US (see Brazil 1964, Bolivia 1971, Iran 1953, Syria 1949, Iraq 1963, Indonesia 1965, Venezuela 2002, etc)

I remember with COVID a lot of sailors got stuck and nobody felt responsibility to do anything for them.

Sounds like pretty standard intelligence gathering that every police force in the world does.

Exactly it is not science but purely cosmetic. Which for some reason makes HN mad but guess what people choose cars based on how they look and how they are marketed! There has never been a rational man. Spock is not real.

Read a history book to learn how all this bad stuff was abolished in the West. Ofcourse that requires a basic respect for poor people to develop in India...

And those cost money. That is the crux here. Free parking is frankly insane. It became untenable in Amsterdam as early as the 1960s when most people could afford a car.

If you want trees, a sidewalk and bike lanes something has got to give.

Sure but they will still need to pay up the agreed contract price.

Social media algorithms definitely should. Fourteen year old girls do not need an AI to make them even more miserable.

Competence gives way to ideology.

I once read an interesting book on the economy of Nazi Germany. There were a lot of smart CEOs and high ranking civil servants who perfectly predicted US industrial might.

At least the Chinese are not pretending to be a free democracy.

The population of the DPRK think they are, and it would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

To be fair, they're not really allowed to show any evidence that they think otherwise...